yearhundred

词形变化

yearhundreds 复数 yearhundreds

别名

year-hundred

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Century (a hundred-year timespan).

    罕用

    Are we thereby to date also St. Peter and St. Paul, St. Stephen and St. James in the Third Century, the Fourth and still posthumous Yearhundreds of the Christian era?

词源

From year + hundred. Calque of German Jahrhundert (“century”), from Jahr (“year”) + Hundert (“hundred”). Compare Scots yeirhunder, Saterland Frisian Jierhunnert, German Jahrhundert, Danish århundrede, Swedish århundrade, Norwegian århundre, all meaning “century” and being composed of the cognates (sisterwords) of English year and hundred.

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